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A couple of questions

10-09-2009, 01:55 PM

Hi,
I was just wondering a couple of things!

When will I be able to play Doom III on the opensource ATi driver? The 9.3 Catalyst is horrible in Hardy, and the only thing stopping me from installing Linux fulltime is the lack of a decent 3D driver. Don't get me wrong, the opensource driver beats the 9.3 Catalyst in everyway except 3D acceleration!

The second thing is pretty simple I hope, could someone please point me to a site/page that explains the whole Linux graphics thing as libdrm, KMS and all that confuses me!

When will I be able to play Doom III on the opensource ATi driver? The 9.3 Catalyst is horrible in Hardy, and the only thing stopping me from installing Linux fulltime is the lack of a decent 3D driver. Don't get me wrong, the opensource driver beats the 9.3 Catalyst in everyway except 3D acceleration!

The second thing is pretty simple I hope, could someone please point me to a site/page that explains the whole Linux graphics thing as libdrm, KMS and all that confuses me!

Thanks in advance!

Eventually it will be able to... Maybe late next year (I'm guessing).

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When will I be able to play Doom III on the opensource ATi driver? The 9.3 Catalyst is horrible in Hardy, and the only thing stopping me from installing Linux fulltime is the lack of a decent 3D driver. Don't get me wrong, the opensource driver beats the 9.3 Catalyst in everyway except 3D acceleration!

The second thing is pretty simple I hope, could someone please point me to a site/page that explains the whole Linux graphics thing as libdrm, KMS and all that confuses me!

Thanks in advance!

Depends on if you're using r600 or not. The older r300-r500 gpus will probably be able to run Doom 3 first, and r600 may be a couple of months after that. But like the above poster said, it's still a ways off.

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I could play Doom3 with an RV280 and radeon driver but the framerate was low (10-15 fps) or worse when the action got heavy. I plugged in the RV350 (and 2.6.31) which was playable (3 years ago) on fglrx but I no longer have dri (or drm) so no point in trying. Will try again when new hard disk arrives.

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If you have an R300-R500, please just go ahead and try it with the latest open source drivers. I don't remember off the top of my head whether there are any Doom 3 related bugs, but if there are, just tell us about them, because I think it should work, albeit probably at less-than-stellar performance.

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If you have an R300-R500, please just go ahead and try it with the latest open source drivers. I don't remember off the top of my head whether there are any Doom 3 related bugs, but if there are, just tell us about them, because I think it should work, albeit probably at less-than-stellar performance.

I just get white where the textures should be on the title screen, if I try to go any further the PC locks up. I tested using Kubuntu Karmic with all the updates.

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If you have an R300-R500, please just go ahead and try it with the latest open source drivers. I don't remember off the top of my head whether there are any Doom 3 related bugs, but if there are, just tell us about them, because I think it should work, albeit probably at less-than-stellar performance.